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Adrian

Dunbar

22 August 1958

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Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

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The Crying Game

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Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is an actor from Northern Ireland, best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards.

Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is a Northern Irish actor best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards. Dunbar was born and brought up in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, the eldest of seven siblings. He was educated by the Presentation Brothers before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He has a daughter and stepson from his 1986 marriage to the Australian actress Anna Nygh. He lives in Crouch End in North London. He is an avid supporter of Arsenal Football Club in London. Dunbar has appeared in such notable films as My Left Foot, The Crying Game, and The General. He has also had leading roles in the films Triggermen, Shooters, How Harry Became A Tree (with Colm Meaney), Richard III, and Widows` Peak. On television, he starred in the first episode of Cracker, and has been in many British productions, including Tough Love, Inspector Morse, Kidnapped, Murphy`s Law, Murder in Mind, Ashes to Ashes and the 2005 re-staging of The Quatermass Experiment, among many others. Dunbar`s theatre credits include: The Shaughraun and Exiles at Dublin`s Abbey Theatre; Real Dreams and The Danton Affair at the Royal Shakespeare Company; King Lear, Pope`s Wedding, Saved and Up To The Sun And Down To The Centre at Royal Court Theatre, Conversations on a homecoming at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast; A Trinity of Two (as Oscar Wilde) at Dublin`s Liberty Hall Theatre; Boeing Boeing (London, 2007). He directed a critically-acclaimed production of Philadelphia Here I Come!. In 2008 he starred in and co-directed Brendan at the Chelsea by Janet Behan, playing the Irish playwright Brendan Behan. He played the role of Aufidius in the BBC Radio production of Coriolanus. He also made a guest appearance in the BBC Radio 4 series Baldi, and appeared onstage as Vermeer in an adaptation of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Dunbar is planning to direct Connolly, a movie about Irish labour union organizer James Connolly as seen through the eyes of his daughter, Nora. The production company is Rascal Films. He played the mysterious character Martin Summers in the second series of Ashes to Ashes but was killed off in the final episode of series two.

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